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Comrade Haldane Is Too Busy to Go on Holiday - The Genius Who Spied for Stalin (Hardcover)
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Comrade Haldane Is Too Busy to Go on Holiday - The Genius Who Spied for Stalin (Hardcover)
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John Burdon Sanderson Haldane F.R.S. (1892-1964) was one of the
leading scientists of the twentieth century, renowned for helping,
through statistical wizardry, to reconcile Darwin's theory of
natural selection with Mendel's discovery of genes. The product of
a distinguished family of scientists and public figures, "JBS"
trained and influenced a swathe of students and colleagues at
Oxford, Cambridge, and University College London, many of whom,
such as the evolutionary theorist John Maynard Smith, went on to
distinction in their own right. As a widely known left-wing "public
intellectual," Haldane gained fame as a popularizer of science and
commentator on public affairs, broadcasting often on the BBC and
publishing extensively in newspapers and magazines. His collections
of popular scientific essays influenced a generation of upcoming
scientists and remain in print today. On his death in 1964, he was
accorded the rare tribute of a televised self-obituary on the BBC.
Celebrated for his ability to connect seemingly disparate subjects,
during the Second World War Haldane was extensively involved in
scientific research to aid the British war effort. Using evidence
gathered from VENONA Signals Intelligence intercepts, MI5 files,
and the Haldane papers, this book reveals that Haldane was also a
Soviet spy-a member of the "X Group," an espionage ring that was
run out of the Soviet Embassy in London. His interlocking
associations with other spies, such as Ivor Montagu and Hans Kahle;
his role as a hardline Stalinist propagandist through the onset of
the Cold War; his betrayal of his colleague and friend, the Soviet
geneticist Nikolai Vavilov; his long-standing support for the
charlatan Soviet "scientist" Trofim D. Lysenko; and his concealed
stalemate with the Communist Party of Great Britain once his
ability to finesse Lysenko was extinguished, are unraveled here for
the first time.
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